We’ve all heard the rhetoric from the current regime about freedom not being free. The substance of that is true, however, I think that catch phrase should relate more to sacrificing ones blood, not one’s ideals or basic rights.
When did domestic spying and being jailed without charges become ok?
For those who say “If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to be afraid of”, that is just sympathetic apathy for a populous that has become so complacent with a “Big Brother” government that we ignore the rights of others just so we can get on with our daily routines.
Does anyone truly believe that innocent people aren’t jailed and or tortured every day in the United States? Is THAT the price to pay for freedom? I thought the basic premise of the judicial system in our democracy was that everyone is innocent until PROVEN guilty under due process of the law. When we circumvent that, we move closer to a totalitarian form of government and further away from democracy.
2006-09-22 02:57:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Preemptive note:
For any of you that are going to call me a LIBTARD or some other such epithet, name calling stopped having an effect on me in the 3rd grade. So, don’t embarrass yourself.
2006-09-22 02:57:22 · update #1
Thanks for all the thoughtful and thought provoking answers so far. It's refreshing to see that rather than the usual venomous, hate filled answers that come form people with different opinions.
2006-09-22 03:37:35 · update #2
Nothing in life is free. You have to give a little to get a little. Get used to it. You have to pay taxes to have the freedoms we have, and you didn't complain about that.
2006-09-22 03:04:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree - though you seem to have quite a bit of rhetoric yourself. Nobody can ever truly be free - because then everyone could do what they liked, and stopping someone killing someone else would be an infringement of their freedom. So therefore, everyone is free, for a given value of free. The main issue is that the 'regime' (Bush/Blair) is trying to redefine that given value to something many people find unacceptable- essentially to reduce it, and to use the excuse that less freedom means more safety; itself a completely baseless lie - as is their unspoken premise "the innocent have nothing to fear"
These truly are interesting times, what is a one party state in both Britain and the US in all but name - and once these faceless politicians are elected they proceed to remove more freedoms - a totalitarian 'democracy'. And they wonder why people don't vote any more...
2006-09-22 10:11:12 · answer #2 · answered by Mordent 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When people state that freedom is not free, what they are referring to is not only the blood that is shed, but the costs of manpower, systems, equipment,& programs. I think you are prone to overexagerations and I want you to show your source of this torture in this US. I don't buy into Big Brother, nor do I like big government, but the facts are, in order to protect us, there had to be some modifications to the way information is gathered and the way people are processed to ensure safety.
2006-09-22 10:08:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It became different after 9/11 when people living among us did a terrible thing.
2006-09-22 10:00:25 · answer #4 · answered by Kelly T 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋